thomnottom

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by thomnottom 9y ago
Ugh, I'm so tired of this argument. Lego has more sets today that are just bricks or bricks with multiple models than they've had for like 35+ years. Not to mention dozens of books they put out with other ideas. And I'm not t
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by thomnottom 9y ago
I really wish those sets had been around when I was a kid.
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by thomnottom 9y ago
I was curious about the NSAID number. Doing some quick research I came across this quote: "Mortality reported with NSAID use is generally linked to NSAID-associated GI bleeding, and the reported incidence is quite variable. Much of the
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by thomnottom 9y ago
I remember watching the 2006 Super Bowl at a friend's apartment. One room had the SD broadcast going and the other had an HD brodcast. We'd be watching them line-up in HD and hear cheers from the other room because they already sa
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by thomnottom 9y ago
I like that the first comment points out that they would be useless once the chip and pin switch takes place "in a year or so".
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by thomnottom 9y ago
>> Most of the people who complain hate speech and abuse are conflating it with dissenting opinions, sometimes stated aggressively or insultingly and in large numbers. I can only speak to my own observations, which do not support thi
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by thomnottom 9y ago
Portability was such a huge factor for me losing interest in diaspora, and I hope that can be addressed. As for the multiple instances, can't you just pick one and follow things on the others? That was my understanding.
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by thomnottom 9y ago
Please do no conflate hate speech and abuse with dissenting opinions. There may, very well, be people who want to hide in an echo chamber. But that is all over twitter and Facebook today. Being able to isolate yourself from abusive speech s
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by thomnottom 10y ago
Correct, but it is a start.
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by thomnottom 10y ago
I debated about the recommendation, but went with the simplest one to start.
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by thomnottom 10y ago
Start with not using their DNS servers (OpenDNS https://www.opendns.com ) Install HTTPS Everywhere ( https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere ) Install uBlock Origin (Chrome - https://chrome.google.com/
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by thomnottom 10y ago
Somewhat humorous in light of this comment on Schneier's post about the laptop ban: "Get the 15" laptop, throw all the electronics away, leave just screen and keyboard. Put Raspberry Pi and three AA batteries inside. Voila -
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by thomnottom 10y ago
>If someone isn't sure how they feel about a movie, why is it a benefit to have them spew their half-formed thoughts into a like/dislike rating? That's pretty harsh. I've watched plenty of movies that I enjoyed and wo
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by thomnottom 10y ago
Have you made a decision on the card yet? I really wanted to do this on my primary desktop and ended up using a secondary machine which I stream non-Linux games via Steam. But I hate running that second machine all the time.
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by thomnottom 10y ago
I spent 2 years trying to get them to understand that alerts from my credit card company were not spam before finally giving up and moving off Gmail. I am very happy to be done with their spam-filtering.
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by thomnottom 10y ago
I don't know why it never occurred to me to try putting the bangs at the end of the result, but you definitely just saved me a lot of future time I would have spent jumping to the beginning of searches to edit them. Seriously, thanks.
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by thomnottom 10y ago
Not sure the point of this. The implication of the parent was that HOAs severely restrict freedoms in the suburbs. My point was that HOAs are not a requirement for living in the suburbs.
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by thomnottom 10y ago
I grew up deep inside a suburban development in Pennsylvania. We could ride our bikes for miles and still avoid major roads. Street hockey games very rarely had to move nets for cars. A number of friends lived easily within walking/bik
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by thomnottom 10y ago
I've lived in suburbs most of my life and have never had a HOA.
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by thomnottom 10y ago
From my understanding, stem cells are like cells that have not picked a specialty yet. So they can become the cells necessary to repair a damaged area once they are introduced.
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by thomnottom 10y ago
It almost sounds like this is something that should have been dealt with as soon as he won the nomination instead of waiting until after the election.
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by thomnottom 10y ago
So if you don't even understand that The Avalanches are an electronic music group... nevermind...
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by thomnottom 10y ago
What an odd opinion. Especially considering how much current top 40 music borrows from electronic music. For decades now I've enjoyed plenty of electronic music with my friends and none of us ever bothered to get high to do so.
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by thomnottom 10y ago
After having drastically reduced my sugar intake, I can't even stomach most sodas. It's startling how big of a difference it can make.
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by thomnottom 10y ago
How would it "stop working"? I've done re-installations here and there, but I can't think of a single time that it just "stopped working". And yes, after a couple months I usually do an in place upgrade for my
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by thomnottom 10y ago
I believe that Unity 8 currently does not work with VirtualBox but is functioning in VMware Workstation.
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by thomnottom 10y ago
My guess would be that the American government has less reason to test what would take down some of these services. And not for benevolent reasons, but because they could more easily send in armed agents and simply unplug those services.
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by thomnottom 10y ago
I'll give you 3 of those points, but definitely not durable. Some of them lasted a long time, and some of them stopped working before I could finish writing to them. And since writing to them was painfully slow, something frequently we
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by thomnottom 10y ago
That's BMW for you. They manage to keep a lot of it out of the news. Many years ago the M class engines had a problem with cooling and would occasionally melt the car. Sometimes in the driveway. In the case of my boss at the time, as h
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by thomnottom 10y ago
I have multiple friends who balanced full time remote work with raising their children and would disagree with that statement.

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